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So, if the low-skill jobs stay around, but nobody wants to do them, their price increases, because nobody is forced to do them to stay alive. Then we have a gr
by polarix 13y ago
So, if the low-skill jobs stay around, but nobody wants to do them, their price increases, because nobody is forced to do them to stay alive.
Then we have a greater incentive to automate and deprecated the immorally unfulfilling jobs.
- iliis 13y agoYes, the economic argument looks solid. Good old supply and demand. Problem is, we may not be able to automate these jobs so easily.
- PeterisP 13y agoWhile we're not able to automate them, the labor costs for them will rise - and that's a very good thing. I've looked at business process automation analysis in a few industries, and I've seen a TON of mind-numbing things that we actually would able to automate, but it's not worth to try since a bunch of low-wage people is cheaper. In some cases it's not even a question of "how to automate" - simply purchasing well-known machines would do that, but people were cheaper. It would be oh so great if that would change - there are a lot of jobs that IMHO are below humans as such, which are so stupid and soul-crushing shouldn't ever be done by a sentient being, but we as society force them to do so because they want to eat. People can handle shit-jobs - they "turn off", or socialize with coworkers and power through it in order to get their paycheck and come back to their "real life" afterwards - but in the long run, people shouldn't be forced to do that, not anyone, not ever.